Onyx gem in post-antique ring: 'Lumina restituta'

PP-ID:

PP-178

Classification:

gem, votive

Collection ID:

DE-Berlin-Ant_FG 8340

Collection:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

Collection Inventory:

FG 8340

Reference Numbers:

CBd, no. 178

Former Collections:

Stosch, Philipp von (1691–1757); Frederick the Great, king of Prussia (1712–1786)

Material:

onyx (banded)

Dimensions:

15.8 × 19.1 mm (including the mount)

Iconography:

lizard

Blue onyx gem mounted in a post-antique (18th-century) ring.

Side A: Lizard crawling upwards to the top, its long tail and four outstretched limbs visible from above. Around the animal, Latin inscription starting at top right, next to the lizard's head: → lumina restituta. 'Vision restituted'.
Side B: Hidden.

Selected bibliography
• Panofka 1852 >>, no. 109, click here for a full-text excerpt.
• Furtwängler 1896 >>, 306, no. 8340, pl. 60.
• Mastrocinque 2009 >>, 63–64.

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2025.06.15 21:02:20

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Credits Photo: Johannes Laurentius

Notes Side A of PP-798